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Can we be like a Pharisee when we see people teaching something we don’t like like making a judgement of people we look up to because because we want to excuse them which I think is right to in some cases but we have to accept if in some cases one did not repent and does not have excuse and we feel threatened that we can not ever please the Lord like they do and if we listen to them God can not show us so the things that make for our peace will be hidden from us

Though the bible teaches love covers a multitude of sins it does not mean to not warn the danger of practicing sin it requires true repentance and turning away from sin while one has chance one does not know if one sin will be punished and one dies when he does not expect it before one truly repented and was sorry and did His will or even if he knows when to expect to die but he has less time to live as punishment it could be harder for lack of time to offer repentance as one must seek God diligently to repent and do His will but it will be harder for if you don’t seek hard enough you may not find but I don’t know if confession of sin is necessary if one is truly sorry for one sin if one did not know if it was wise or required to but it may be required so one should


Luke 19:39-43
39 And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”
40 But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.”
41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and 44 and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
 
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This video by end time survivor shows that we need to do Christ teaching from heart I don’t know if he is saying he needs to change his view if he does not hold anymore that only those who sold everything could be saved that others who are left behind to suffer evil could not be saved if now considers was wrong that they can be saved though should follow Jesus as may die when not seeking to to not have chance to repent to call on Christ that being all that is required if that is all one can do and one has not reached moment of death when he knows he is passing.

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I sometimes wonder if we are too comfortable with God to see Him just as a father who overlooks our sins to be drawn to those images of Jesus compassion and forgetting that though He is most compassionate He must be feared greatly to be taken seriously otherwise we worship and serve the creature idols of Christ rather than true Christ.
 
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Unless you turn and become as little children you will not enter the kingdom of God.

I was looking at this picture of Jesus in the cross with Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jesus at the cross I remember the memories of my childhood when I was often shown love by different people who I know are Christian to tell me about Jesus and Mary love for Jesus which teaches her to love us as Jesus loves us.

Jesus often made me enjoy His love and fellowship to know He let’s me experience deep closeness and experiences as though in heaven if I come.

But over the years I have perhaps allowed my desire to show I can be great as others to be more important to me than what God has to give me to think myself more important to honor than God.

I think that is why the bible says unless you become as little children you will not enter the kingdom of God for you have to desire God truly to find your satisfaction in relationship with God otherwise you act independent and not as though His child. You have to really as a child care for Him most important to desire Him as much as He desired you to die for you otherwise you don’t prove you are His children.

I am reminded of the verse in Isaiah we have turned each to his own way and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all what is what I am reminded of when I see picture of Jesus on the cross with Mary magdelene and Mary on side Mary magdelene desires Jesus more than her life.


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The error is not that God does not care but it is I that does not receive Him fully into my life He wants me to receive His light into my life to desire to walk in it that it is good to show I desire Him to fellowship with Him by seeking to serve Him but I ignore what is good in pursuit for easy and selfish life but perhaps I need help I thought that even if He were to appear to me perhaps would not change but I might for then I know truth that I can.
 
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Can we be like a Pharisee when we see people teaching something we don’t like like making a judgement of people we look up to because because we want to excuse them which I think is right to in some cases but we have to accept if in some cases one did not repent and does not have excuse and we feel threatened that we can not ever please the Lord like they do and if we listen to them God can not show us so the things that make for our peace will be hidden from us
What does that have to do with being like a Pharisee?

Though the bible teaches love covers a multitude of sins it does not mean to not warn the danger of practicing sin it requires true repentance and turning away from sin while one has chance one does not know if one sin will be punished and one dies when he does not expect it before one truly repented and was sorry and did His will or even if he knows when to expect to die but he has less time to live as punishment it could be harder for lack of time to offer repentance as one must seek God diligently to repent and do His will but it will be harder for if you don’t seek hard enough you may not find but I don’t know if confession of sin is necessary if one is truly sorry for one sin if one did not know if it was wise or required to but it may be required so one should
It's about whether we are someone who serves God or chases after other gods, not about whether we we sin and have time to repent before we die.
 
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It is like being Pharisee because Pharisees were not honest in seeking truth in judging what is right to be open to correction.

It is true we need to serve God and not have any idol that is something we cherish above God but it is never too late to repent of it before you die but one needs to repent while he can because he can die before repenting to call and that if he does not remain he can die while he was not repenting not seeking to to call.
 
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The problem with following a church and not diligently reading the bible and fellowshipping with others who follow the bible is you may think others teach something strange you can’t understand if you even meet someone who teaches yet you won’t give them a chance to be able to grow in relationship with God if your teachers are not teaching everything to know.
 
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This is helpful video by Rabbi Schneider in discovering the Jewish Jesus. It may teach it is wrong to try to partake in worldly pleasures to seek it to find fulfilment so I am wrong to put focus on it to say seeking to have things to enjoy it but not love it more than God is not wrong and to say it is is misinterpretation by others who have troubled by a spirit of a demon of religion for it is wrong perhaps to seek comfort in it to find joy from it rather than finding joy from God and to serve Him that person needs to show that He is not seeking after other things as though need it.

I think though is wrong to say not to be able to have hobbies as jesus did not pray to be taken out of world but not be of to only not partake in sin or watch or continue to hear something that could lead to being tempted to sin when you know something is wrong that to be aware to enjoy is gift of God to talk about things and to gain skills to share with others is good but such things must not be what is pursued above a relationship with God if you are consumed to replace making sure serving God is most important priority in your life. The meaning you can not serve God and mammon means you can not put first to enjoy the things of the world to do anything not for the purpose of serving God but just for yourself for then your focus will be on it and not to do for God.

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I believe I can see God heart that God is love that there is only hell because God has to respect what person chose for themselves. He asks people to return to Him to give Him their heart and let their eyes observe His ways. But until they do really accept Him and love Him to do what He says He says what they are dead they chose that. But He takes no pleasure in the death of people He made hell because He does not want to eliminate what He made as He is love that they may know the full love they rejected and that He misses them. So He wept over Jerusalem saying how often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings but you were not willing.
 
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Until one worships Christ in Spirit and truth he will be carnal attracted to the physical and will not know Christ truly for even on earth importance was given to the spiritual for them to know Him for later His visage was marred more than any man as it says there is no beauty that we should desire Him and that was chosen to show God was rejected by man so they seek Him christ made the invitation I stand at the door and knock for he desires relationship for one to desire true righteousness to worship Him and not go to houses of church to treat it as playzone as people who reject to want to know God in truth.

so bible says man looks on the outward but God looks at the heart.

I am reminded of the song crucified layed behind a stone like a rose trampled on the ground as people did often reject relationship with God for folly to play above all wealth and treasure of the earth it is a sign of immaturity that people desire beauty that God allows but they should grow up that it does not matter anymore.

God does not want people to seek to understand hidden knowledge to think themselves wiser because one heart could become lifted up to not have their heart with God so God cut off Adam lest he lose him to pride.
 
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If one accepts the unjust judgements of the church acting like other believers do not deserve salvation or to feel it is right not just that you follow as think may be true though you don’t worship church to agree to think it good to desire it that seems would make one not worthy of being saved. You must be born again that is to personally seek to follow Christ and if one did even if he followed church as he did not know he would not agree with judgement to think other Christian’s do not deserve to be saved.

Some were more commited to church before as they only heard to think it perfect that they had never seen differently but those who see better more is required of them. For if one could know he may be wrong he should desire to do God will not church though perhaps if one thought still church is right before not sure God will accept but if one knows it may not be true and does not care to wish to please Christ even if he does not know to follow church from fear but not loving it’s teaching to personally agree he is against Christ.

For church is clearly wrong when others follow stories of anyone supposedly in past to condemn other Christian’s when one knows it may be wrong according to scripture but chooses not to like scripture but accepting the evil of the church to agree with it and also scripture teaches truth so person must not be liking the evil of the church even if he follows it.
 
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Jesus said many will say Lord Lord and I do not know them I believe that is because you can fake the Christian life that you put other teachers above the word of God rather than personally having a relationship with God seeking to be honest in doing His will. Because others flatter others in their sins they are deceived that they think God is ok with their form of godliness but denying power. Jesus said you must be born again and I believe that is that it is necessary to personally commune with God to seek to do His will which will enable a relationship as David said create in me a right spirit for you have to ask that from God. The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. You need a new heart to grieve over sin but if you don’t care to do God will being satisfied and deceived that you have a relationship with form you will not ask God.

The below verses seems was put there because it is important to ask just as wisdom should be asked we need to ask about anything we need help with not being proud to believe it comes from you but from God and shows you can’t be Christian believing in any teacher above Jesus way to say to do His will to do good and if you cared about Jesus you would love Him more than any mans teaching even if you follow to think or Christ considers one not to know Him.

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7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! 12 Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophet
 
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Jesus said unless you are converted and become as little children you will not enter kingdom. Just as children as others do not see as important to be worthy and do not judge one must accept salvation as gift from His righteousness and then doing so one is required to do what one can then one fulfills sermon on mount.
 
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I believe this is right which she might mean

By hiding in the shadow of the almighty by spending time with Him now the past does not matter and trusting Him He will cause escape through rapture or to give help to prepare.

Also below was posted that confirms it

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Ebough bloodshed. It is a mistake. For those who take the sword will perish by the sword. It is bad for Israel to do so as if they don’t make peace others will not make peace but the peace Christ brings is peace with God to rest with the saints. It is for us each other to make peace as bible says blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called children of God. There is time for war to defend back if they are still fighting to justify war and not to attack all civilians in revenge.
 
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I believe God is always trying to speak and reminded of two songs lead me to the cross where your love poured out rid me of myself Lord I lay me down and on Christ the solid rock I stand all other ground is sinking sand. My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness so I thought how it could be that hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness unless salvation is by faith now to hope in that now if that is all one can do and there is no need now.
 
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